Dr. Judith Lorber, '08 Keynote SpeakerJUDITH LORBER is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1971 and began developing and teaching courses in women’s studies in 1972. She was the first Coordinator of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Women's Studies Certificate Program and was Founding Editor of Gender & Society, official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society.
Barbara F. Reskin | American Sociological AssociationBarbara F. Reskin served as the 93rd President of the American Sociological Association. Her Presidential Address, entitled "Modeling Ascriptive Inequality - From Motives to Mechanisms," was delivered at the Association's 2002 Annual Meeting in Chicago, and was later published in the February 2003 issue of the American Sociological Review (ASR Vol 68 No 1, pp 1-21). Reskin is currently with the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington.
Living together no longer 'playing house' - USATODAY.com• The odds of divorce among women who married their only cohabiting partner were 28% lower than among women who never cohabited before marriage, according to sociologist Daniel Lichter of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
• Divorce rates for those who cohabit more than once are more than twice as high as for women who cohabited only with their eventual husbands, says Lichter's study, to be published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in December.
• Cohabiting between a first and second marriage doesn't raise the risk of divorce — unless the woman brings a child into the marriage from a previous relationship. A man with a child from a previous relationship does not raise the likelihood of a second divorce, finds a study in the May Journal of Marriage and Family, in which Teachman analyzed findings on 655 women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth.
Abuse risk seen worse as families change - USATODAY.com•Children living in households with unrelated adults are nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children living with two biological parents, according to a study of Missouri abuse reports published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2005.
